At the age of 16, Einstein always played with a group of naughty kids. Because he was so busy playing, he didn’t study enough and failed his final exam.

One morning, when Einstein was holding a fishing rod (钓鱼竿) and was about to go fishing with his friends, his father stopped him and said calmly, “Einstein, you spent so much time playing that you failed your exam. I’m worried about your future.”

“What are you worried about? Jack and Robert also failed, but don’t they still get to go fishing?”

“My boy, you can’t think like that,” his dad said.

“There is a fable (寓言) that people tell in our hometown. I will tell it to you now.”

“There were two cats playing on a roof. One cat got caught off guard and fell down the chimney (烟囱) while holding the other cat. When the two cats climbed out of the chimney, one of the cats had soot (烟灰) on his face, while the other cat’s face was clean. Seeing the dirty cat, the clean cat thought its face must be dirty, so it quickly ran to the river and washed its face. The dirty cat saw the clean cat and thought its face was also clean, so it just swaggered down the street.”

“Einstein, no one can be your ‘mirror’. You have to think for yourself. If you just do what everyone else does, you will never learn.”

Hearing this, Einstein put down his fishing rod and returned to his room. He decided to pay more attention to his studies and less attention to what his friends were doing. This allowed him to be successful.

There is no doubt that e-sports is on the rise. Just like soccer, basketball and baseball, e-sports has become very popular around the world.

E-sports is short for electronic sports. But it is more than just children playing games in their bedrooms. In e-sports, teams of gamers play video games in front of big audiences and compete for millions of dollars in prizes.

According to the BBC, the total amount of prize money offered by e-sports competitions reached 0.65 billion yuan in 2016. These competitions were watched by about 320million people and are predicted (预计) to almost double their audience to nearly 600 million by 2022.

China listed e-sports as an officially recognized sport in 2003. And in 2016, the country even made it a new major (专业) for vocational (职业的) schools. This means that students may choose to study e-sports after they graduate from high school.

Big companies and traditional sports clubs have created their own e-sports teams. Famous soccer clubs like Paris Saint—Germain and Manchester City have hired (雇佣) professional e-sports gamers.

Getting paid to play computer games might sound like a dream come true. But don’t be fooled. Only top players can make a living from e-sports. And they have to put in a lot of hard work and training. According to the BBC, some players might train for up to 14 hours a day. This training is necessary in order to increase their “actions per minute”, or APM. A higher APM gives players an advantage.

Before you read this story, let’s look at a Chinese sentence: “研表究明，汉字序顺并不定一影阅响读。”    16     You might not realize it, but your brain can read and understand most sentences, even when the words are in the wrong order.

This may have something to do with psychology(心理学). When we first learn how to read, we read word by word.     17     People can read five to six words at one time. Also, as experienced readers, we take the things we’re familiar with for granted. We don’t pay as much attention to small details, such as word order.

Therefore, when we read the sentence at the beginning of this article, the content was familiar to us. So we read it the way we think it should be in our memory, with all the words in the right order.     18     We assume the person is a girl without taking a closer look.

    19     Read the following sentence: “This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the word a’s a wlohe.”

It is believed that humans remember the meanings of words mostly by their shape and layout(布局), rather than the order of the letters.

    20     We cannot read them as quickly and efficiently as we read normal text.